You've given me a lot to listen to, and I'll have to try to carefully step through the links you've provided and your accompanying notations, to follow your points about them. (From all you've said here, I believe you could probably teach a whole course in these kinds of historical music forms, and it would be great to know all those things. Maybe you should set up an online school about them, for newer Catholics.)
:-)
I'm on a mission to convert the folks in our parish to what I keep calling "the magnificent treasury of Catholic music".
And I'm going to keep talking about it every week until somebody appreciates it! :-)
This week, the column features Jacob Obrecht, one of the Netherlands composers from the second half of the 15th century. He stands in the shadow of the great Josquin, but his music is lovely and is getting something of a revival right now.
This is the prayer from the end of the Rosary - "Hail, holy Queen, mother of mercy, our life, our sweetness, and our hope. To thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve; to thee do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this vale of tears. Turn then, O most gracious advocate, thine eyes of mercy towards us, and after this our exile, show us the blessed fruit of thy womb, Jesus. O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary."